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Backlash is intensifying in Oklahoma after a teenager accused in a series of violent sex assaults avoided prison time, prompting swarms of people to protest outside a courthouse amid renewed scrutiny of how the justice system handled the case. Images show more than a hundred people gathering outside the Payne County Courthouse Wednesday carrying signs demanding justice after 18-year-old Jesse Butler avoided prison under Oklahoma’s youthful offender law, The Oklahoman reported. “Ponca Tribal Victim Services is standing in solidarity with survivors demanding Justice!,” the organization wrote in a post on Facebook. “Jesse Butler needs to be held accountable! Payne county...

Chaos broke out across city centres last night as Bonfire Night descended into mayhem across the UK. Footage shows innocent people running for their lives as fireworks were set off in Birmingham city centre as police battled to regain control. Fireworks were launched towards people, vehicles and the police as the night brought explosions and screams onto the streets.

Texas voters overwhelmingly approved an amendment on Tuesday that adds noncitizens to the list of individuals prohibited from voting in state elections, reinforcing that only US citizens are eligible to cast ballots. Proposition 16 passed with over 71 percent support as of Wednesday afternoon. The measure amends the Texas Constitution to explicitly include “persons who are not citizens of the United States” among those barred from voting. The list already includes convicted felons who have not met certain conditions for reinstatement and individuals deemed mentally incompetent by a court. By placing the citizenship requirement directly into the state constitution, the...

An overwhelming 84 percent of Gen Z women voted for socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in Tuesday’s election, while white men were the only demographic to vote against him. According to NBC News exit polling, among women ages 18-29, 84 percent supported Mamdani. 67 percent of men in the same age group also voted for him. Overall, voters under 50 heavily backed Mamdani, while those over 50 broke for his opponent, former Governor Andrew Cuomo. Mamdani won across most demographics, leading among both men and women overall, as well as voters identifying as “very liberal,” 84 percent...

The head of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) issued a warning to New Yorkers after Zohran Mamdani was elected the next mayor of New York City, calling him a "clear and present danger" to the Jewish community and vowing to hold him accountable. "Hundreds of thousands of Jewish New Yorkers are alarmed, and that anxiety is well-placed," said ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt on Fox News Radio's "Brian Kilmeade Show." Mamdani was declared the winner of the mayoral race Tuesday night. He defeated former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa. The self-described Democratic socialist has faced intensifying scrutiny for past remarks labeled...

In the four minute video posted below, the housing conditions at a three bedroom apartment at a public housing project in the Bronx in New York City are absolutely horrible.There are rats, roaches, and black mold.There are leaks in every room.And every time the tenant calls maintenance to ask for repairs, the government employees always make up some bogus excuse for why they can’t fix anything.And why should the government employees fix anything, when they know they can’t get fired?And as all of this is going on, the federal government is giving them $30 million per week to make these...

The exodus from New York City has already begun. Within minutes of his mayoral win, dozens of parents in New York City began unenrolling their kids in NYC public schools, with plans to flee the city for other locations such as Connecticut. This is only going to get worse. As Mamdani puts his agenda into action, people are going to realize that they need to leave the city, which is only going to further depress the city’s tax base. The New York Post reports: Parents began planning to take their kids out of NYC schools minutes after Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral...

I just spent 3 weeks in hospital here in Japan and borrowed my daughter's Windows 11 laptop to use . At home I have Windows 10 on my PC . Right away I noticed that there were absolutely zero ads when I watched something on Youtube whereas when I watch Youtube as soon as I click on something to watch it starts with an ad and is interrupted by ads during the video . I asked her if she has an ad blocker and she said she never watches Youtube so didn't know . What the heck could be the...

The mayor-elect of St. Paul, Minnesota, State Rep. Kaohly Vang Her (D) admitted earlier this year that she and her family are living illegally in the United States. Vang Her, who will become St. Paul’s first female and first Asian mayor, beat out incumbent Melvin Carter, who is also a member of the state’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, which is the name of Minnesota’s Democrat party. In June, as Breitbart News reported, Vang Her stood on the Minnesota House floor and told a story of how she says her family — originally from Laos — immigrated to the U.S. Vang Her said...

FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker handed in his resignation on Wednesday, less than 12 hours after Democrat Socialist Zohran Mamdani was announced the winner of New York City’s mayoral election. The fire chief tendered his resignation the morning after anti-Israel Zohran Mamdani was declared the mayor-elect of New York City, according to a report by New York Daily News. On Wednesday morning, Tucker informed New York City Mayor Eric Adams that December 19 will be his last day as FDNY commissioner, according to an email obtained by the newspaper. “Between now and then, I will continue to lead the greatest fire...

XAI: TODAY, ON SITE, WE HAVE OVER 2,000 WORKERS BUILDING THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL COMPUTER “Today, on site, we have over 2,000 workers building the world’s most powerful computer. Thank you to the amazing, hard-working men and women of Memphis for all you do!” Source: xAI

A senior EU official has said he expects the US "not to interfere" in global climate negotiations in Brazil next week, citing aggressive behavior at last month’s International Maritime Organization (IMO) meetings in London. At those talks, US officials reportedly intimidated diplomats from Africa and the so-called Small Island States, warning some they might lose US transit rights or face entry restrictions for themselves and their families if they did not help block the UN-backed Net Zero Framework for shipping. The official said they were unaware whether commission staff had been targeted directly. “We have no indication our colleagues were...

Destigmatized abortion increases the pressure for women to abort. If abortion is supposed to be a morally neutral option, then it makes sense to expect women to abort if we conceive in difficult circumstances. The circumstances could be conceiving while in poverty or in an abusive relationship, or any number of situations, but the pressure becomes especially clear when we conceive children with disabilities that can be detected prenatally. For example, when discussing options with a woman who receives a prenatal Down syndrome diagnosis, a significant number of physicians and genetic professionals will self-report that they emphasize the negative aspects...

“As these men were going away, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John, ‘What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?’” (Matthew 11:7). The world uses many standards—intellectual achievement, public service, wealth, athletic skill, and others—to measure greatness. But here Jesus begins to portray real greatness in the character qualities of John the Baptist. Strength of conviction was one of those qualities, and it was even more remarkable given his doubts about Jesus that John’s disciples had just presented. His foundational convictions were strong enough that raising some doubts was...

In recent months, the Population Research Institute (PRI) has documented, with significant amounts of evidence, the activities of three major abortion networks: FIGO, CLACAI, and FP2030. Each of these has played a specific role in the international expansion of abortion. Now, we have turned our attention to another key player: DKT International. Founded in 1989, this organization presents itself as a promoter of “sexual and reproductive health,” but in reality, it has become the world’s largest distributor of abortion pills, using sophisticated social marketing networks specifically designed to evade pharmaceutical regulations. On September 2, 2025, DKT announced that it would...

The female migrant who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers at Salt Lake City airport did not know she had a long-serving deportation order, according to a lawyer working on her case. Marta Brizeyda Renderos Leiva, 39, was arrested by plain-clothed agents at the Utah travel hub last Wednesday. Footage of her arrest showed the wailing mother-of-four imploring, 'Help me, I have my papers' as she was taken into custody by ICE. Now, her legal team has claimed Leiva 'did not know' that a judge had placed a removal order against her. 'She is a woman who...

Hours after California Gov. Gavin Newsom's Election Rigging Act passed (and while they're still counting ballots) the California Republican Party and 19 individual plaintiffs filed suit against Newsom and Secretary of State Shirley Weber to invalidate the Proposition 50 maps, claiming that they violate the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution because they were drawn "based on race, specifically to favor Hispanic voters, without cause or evidence to justify it."

In a surprising story out of India, a couple who is serving life in prison for murder has been paroled so they can undergo in vitro fertilization (IVF) to have a baby. Key Takeaways: * The couple, Jayendra Damor and Sejal Bariya, have spent 15 years of their life sentences behind bars for murder. * Now in their late 30s, they want to have a child and have been granted temporary parole to undergo IVF. That parole has been extended at least twice. * As convicted murderers, it is unclear why a judge would allow them to leave prison to...

The lunacy imposed by leftist judges is beyond parody: A federal judge has ruled that the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) must provide laser hair removal, facial feminization surgery consultations, and voice therapy for a convicted pedophile who now identifies as transgender. The inmate, identified as 47-year-old Brian Buckingham, was sentenced to more than 21 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually abusing his 10-year-old son and producing child pornography. For probably the first and hopefully the last time in human history, behavior like this is not considered to warrant the death penalty. These days, it warrants taxpayer-funded luxuries in...

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